So I rolled a start. BtS 3.17, Normal speed, Fractal map, Catherine of Russia.
First start I got:
My first thought: "Woops, gotta turn on the resource bubbles". Sadly, this didn't change anything
As a reminder: We start with Mining and Hunting.
I count 6 FPs = 2.4

-> 2

. 3 Hills, all grassland hills. 13 workable riverside tiles. 4 forests.
I'm quite sure we'll either find some resource either in the fog or uncovered later, once we get AH/BW. We should probably move the scout to the hill 2N1W to find out more.
I'm not too sure about this start. I'd probably settle in place turning this into a strong buerocracy capital.
We'll surely be able to chop and whip out a few settlers but after that the capital will be utter crap production-wise and busy building infra. We'll need to find a GPFarm and a good production site should we want to build any wonders. Chopping one in the capital won't really be an option.
While the lack of forests "saves" a few worker turns, those FPs will take long to get improved. I'd start with a worker and tech agri > BW > archery. We don't really need to tech BW before archery as our hills aren't forested and we can improve lots of good tiles pre-BW, but we will find copper sooner, probably even in our capital.
Is that were we stand roster-wise?
mystyfly
Raskolnikov
Rusten
Duckweed
Dirk
open spot
Shyuhe
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